MISS FLORENCE MAY LYON and two associate teachers of the Detroit High School, members of Chapter 743, are making arrangements to take a bevy of a dozen or twenty young ladies for a summer vacation of six weeks, to the charming town of Annisquam, Mass. They propose to teach them in as "unbookish and delightful a way as possible about sea-side plants and animals." These ladies have had abundant experience, and we wish them the greatest success. BIRDS' EGGS. The destruction of the singing birds of America is a growing and a very serious evil. Many ladies wear on their bonnets enough birds to flood a grove with melody--if only the birds were not dead and in pieces. We may make an appeal on this subject to the girls and women of the A. A., at a later date, but just now it is a question of robbing birds' nests. This association strictly maintains the scientific ground that when birds' eggs are actually _needed_ by a young naturalist, as a means of identification or of practical knowledge, it is justifiable to take them, when the law allows. But the collection of eggs as curiosities, and the wholesale robbery of nests for purposes of sale or exchange, is a wanton destruction wholly unworthy of any earnest student of nature. In view of the impossibility of discriminating between the two classes of collectors, we shall hereafter decline to publish in ST. NICHOLAS, any requests for the sale, purchase, or exchange of the eggs of singing or game birds. _We shall notice, as formerly, eggs of the Penguin, eagle, crow, and ostrich._ DELAYED CHAPTER REPORTS. 60, _Pigeon Cove, Mass._ We have not lost a member from our books since you first enrolled us, and although at present we are all so occupied by our daily work that we can not hold regular meetings, we all look forward to the time when we shall be able to begin again.--Charles H. Andrews. 150, _Flushing, L. I._ Our Chapter has not been very active during the past year, but I hope in the near future to build up a lively Chapter. Father and Mother will help me.--Frances M. L. Heaton, Sec. 189, _W. Medford, Mass._ The Chapter is still in existence, and is holding meetings every week.--Daisy G. Dame, Sec. 257, _Plantsville, Conn._ We have been very successful; meetings full of interest and well attended. Our last paper on "Crystals" was by E. N. Walkley, who illustrated the subject by plaster casts. We have a good male quartet in our Chapter; also gentlemen who play on the violin, flute, piano, and 'cello, so we can have a good time if we want it, at any meeting. We have just papered, painted, and whitewashed our room, and intend to give an entertainment to procure funds to buy a new carpet (_Bravo!_)--Albert L. Ely, Pres. 287, _Ottawa, Ill._ Our members are scattered, some in college, most of the others going soon; but we do not wish to be counted out of that society from which we have received so much pleasure and profit.--Edgar Eldredge, Sec.